Category: Science

Of the former National Football League (NFL) players who died in recent years, at least 25% had brain changes related to chronic traumatic encephalopathy (

Many people struggle to sleep enough at night. Surprisingly, science cannot say if adding in a nap to sleep in two blocks is healthy.

If you blow across the top of an empty bottle you’ll hear a clear, steady note. Now, engineers have used that same concept to power

The Crown of Kerch was discovered in a high-status woman’s grave in Crimea more than a century ago. (Image credit: Mirko Kuzmanovic/Alamy) QUICK FACTS Name:

Photovoltaic technology, most commonly seen as the bulky solar panels used on solar farms, is expected to become a dominant energy source by 2050. But

NASA opened its newest wind tunnel, the Flight Dynamics Research Facility at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, on Friday, providing a critical resource

In July, a government agency tasked with protecting our cultural heritage abdicated its responsibility, voting to further industry’s pursuit of profit over protecting sites of

NGC 6723 is a globular cluster, an ancient inhabitant of the Milky Way galaxy. (Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Sarajedini, G. Piotto) Quick facts

Every second of every day, Earth is bombarded by particles from outer space. Some of these particles are obstructed by our planet’s atmosphere but can

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) reveals the nearby galaxy Centaurus A, exposing the dusty structures and hidden activity that shape this unusual

Archaeologists in Russia have unearthed a medieval hoard of 2,600 silver coins, including more than 350 coins of a type never seen before. The hoard

Earth’s temperatures are steadily rising , with the past decade experiencing all 10 of the warmest years on record . As heat waves become more

A new artificial intelligence (AI) model used a novel approach to AI cognition to dramatically reduce the cost of requests, suggesting that nonverbal reasoning may

There’s a commonly cited idea that water in a drain swirls in opposite directions in the Northern and Southern hemispheres. But is there any truth